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Insects of Surinam/ Die Insekten Surinams/ Les Insectes de Surinam: Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 105.37 $The masterwork of an entomological pioneer At a time when few women were educated or literate – and rarely travelled – German-born naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) made history with her studies of insects in Surinam. Trained as a copperplate engraver and watercolorist, she documented the metamorphosis of butterflies, laying the foundation for modern entomology. What Merian observed when breeding native species of butterfly triggered her curiosity, and spurred her to further investigation; the development from ovum, via larva and chrysalis, to adult butterfly was not fully understood in the 17th century. And not every pupa developed into a butterfly, which puzzled Merian for a long time. On seeing a collection of butterflies from Dutch Guiana, modern Surinam, she decided to study tropical flora and fauna, to discover whether the moths and butterflies she saw in collections shared the same life cycle as those she had bred: the egg and caterpillar stage. In 1699 she sailed for South America with daughter Dorothea, the first time any woman had ventured on a journey of exploration on this scale. Having evaluated and categorized her specimens, in 1705 she published her major work Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, in Dutch and Latin. She made 60 copperplate engravings to illustrate the stages of insect development, arranged around the cultivated and wild plants she had encountered on her travels. With its detailed text and imagery, the Metamorphosis is the first work on the natural history of Surinam. For 17th century Europeans it was an insight into an unknown world. TASCHEN’s reprint of a hand-colored first edition copy includes the complete plates with a commentary by Katharina Schmidt-Loske. Merian accomplished a pioneering achievement of the modern age. This publication pays homage to her work and offers readers an opportunity to appreciate her sumptuous engravings.
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Surinam Funk Force / Various
Vendor: Deepdiscount.com Price: 29.98 $Surinam Funk Force / Various Various Artists - LP 8717127018598
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Insects of Surinam
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 70.00 $Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.
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Stedman's Surinam : Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 37.05 $This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life―and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
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Premodern Places : Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 52.91 $This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Begins with Calais – peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam – traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset, Genoa, and the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands). Includes fascinating anecdotes, such as the story of an English merchant learning love songs in Calais. Provides insights into major historical narratives, such as race and slavery in Renaissance Europe. Crosses the traditional divide between the medieval and Renaissance periods.
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Vitalsource Technologies, Inc. Stedman's Surinam: Life In 18th Cent...
Vendor: Textbooks.com Price: 40.00 $A digital copy of "Stedman's Surinam: Life In 18th Cent..." by Stedman. Download is immediately available upon purchase!
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Johns Hopkins University Press Stedman's Surinam : Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society
Vendor: Textbooks.com Price: 40.00 $A digital copy of "Stedman's Surinam : Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society" by John G. Stedman. Download is immediately available upon purchase!
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Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam : Transcribed for the First Time from the Original 1790 Manuscript
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 36.47 $When John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796-a bowdlerized edition "full of lies and nonsense"-Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman's work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices' acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman's horror at the Dutch planters' use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that "in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar." Freed from its original publisher's censorship, Stedman's Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
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América Desde Otra Frontera. La Guayana Holandesa (surinam): 1680-1795
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 29.65 $288 pp. Esta obra supone una aportación al extenso panorama de conocimientos existente sobre la América de las plantaciones. El propósito es analizar la evolución general de la colonización y exploración holandesa de la Guayana (concretamente el área de Surinam) desde 1860 hasta finales del siglo XVIII. Se tiene en cuenta la confrontación de diversos factores sociales y políticos y se hace hincapié en los mecanismos y estrategias de ocupación económica desarrolladas por las firmas de Ámsterdam en el contexto atlántico. Sumario: Agradecimientos. Introducción. Capítulo I. Las plantaciones del Caribe y el contexto atlántico holandés.- II- El espíritu mercantil neerlandés y la lógica de las compañías de comercio.- III. La función de la república holandesa en América durante los siglos XVII y XVIII.- IV. La costa salvaje y su contexto de cara al Caribe.- V. La creación de la Sociedad de Surinam en 1680¿VI- Guerra en el Caribe y conflictos hispano-holandeses¿VII. Plantación y sociedad en Surinam.- VIII- Surinam en el Atlántico: producción y comercialización.- Conclusión. Apéndice. Fuentes documentales. Bibliografía. Abreviaturas. Índices: de ilustraciones, de cuadros, de gráficos. Onomástico, de topónimos, de materias.
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Creole Drum : An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 24.89 $Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam : Transcribed for the First Time from the Original 1790 Manuscript
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 31.42 $When John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796-a bowdlerized edition "full of lies and nonsense"-Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman's work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices' acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman's horror at the Dutch planters' use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that "in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar." Freed from its original publisher's censorship, Stedman's Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Stedman's Surinam : Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society
Vendor: Textbooks.com Price: 38.76 $A New copy of "Stedman's Surinam : Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society" by John G. Stedman. Ships directly from Textbooks.com
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Otinku
Vendor: Deepdiscount.com Price: 29.99 $Re-issue of hard-to-find 1971 jazz album, originally recorded and released in Finland. Fascinating fusion of modern jazz and elements of Caribbean music, African roots and pan. Quintet featuring Rudy Smith from Trinidad & Tobago, plus musicians from Barbados, Surinam, and Ghana. The introduction of steelpan as a jazz instrument in Europe.
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The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 147.00 $Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the ‘Jewish Savannah’, where a vibrant Jewish community was granted full and equal rights two hundred years before the Jews of other communities in the region. St Eustatius, where the economically successful Jewish community was plundered during the British occupation in 1781. Curacao, named the ‘Mother of Jewish communities in the New World’, where a prosperous Jewish community comprised nearly half of Curacao’s non-slave population and was the center of Jewish life in the region. For all their economic and local political power, the Jews were little more than pawns in the 200-year struggle for control of the Caribbean by Holland, Great Britain, France and Spain. Eventually growing tired of this chess game, the Jews of the Caribbean drifted into assimilation or immigrated to the United States, where life was more secure. An ideal resource and captivating read for those traveling to the region or people with an interest in Jewish history, this is an exceptional book that brings the Jewish communities of the Caribbean to life, with intensity, and with a heartbeat so strong as to secure their proper and rightful place in recorded Jewish history.
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Safe, Warm, and Snug
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 42.33 $Parent animals protect their babies from predators and the elements in lots of unusual ways. This delightful rhyming picture book explores some of the unique behaviors that creatures from kangaroos to cockroaches, emperor penguins to Surinam toads, use to keep their offspring safe, warm, and snug. Vivid illustrations by award-winning illustrators Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey enhance the humor in every poem.
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Black Rebellion : Five Slave Revolts
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 26.59 $Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for generations in the mountains and jungles of Jamaica and Surinam; of Gabriel Prosser, who recruited about 1,000 fellow slaves in 1800 to launch a rebellion throughout Virginia; of Denmark Vesey, an ex-slave, seaman, and artisan, fluent in several languages, who conspired in 1822 to kill the white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, and take over the city; and of the revolutionary mystic Nat Turner, who in 1831 organized and led the most successful and dramatic slave revolt in North America. The author also describes how whites responded with panic, sweeping arrests, mass executions, and more repressive laws in a futile effort to crush the slaves' insatiable desire to be free.
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I Lost My Arrow in a Kankan Tree
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 59.00 $Jakono's lost arrow leads to good fortune in this cumulative story set in Surinam
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Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 (New Narratives in American History)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 41.88 $The story of slavery in the colonial New World is, in part, one of rebellion. In Jamaica, Hispaniola, Dutch Surinam and elsewhere, massive uprisings threatened European rule. But not in British North America. Between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies experienced only one notable revolt, on South Carolina's Stono River in 1739, and it lasted a single day. Yet, writes Peter Charles Hoffer, as brief as this event was, historians have misunderstood it--and have thus overlooked its deeper significance.In Cry Liberty, Hoffer provides a deeply researched and finely nuanced narrative of the Stono River conflict, offering uncomfortable insights into American slavery. In particular, he draws on new sources to reexamine this one dramatic day. According to conventional wisdom, recently imported African slaves-warriors in spirit and training-learned of an impending war between England and Spain. Seeking freedom from Spanish authorities, the argument runs, they launched a well-planned uprising in order to escape to Florida. But Hoffer has mined legislative and legal records, land surveys, and first-hand accounts to identify precisely where the fighting began, trace the paths taken by rebels and militia, and offer a new explanation of its causes. Far from a noble, well-crafted revolt, he reveals, the slaves were simply breaking into a store to take what they thought was their due, and chance events put them on a path no participant had originally intended. The truth is a far less heroic, but far more of a human tragedy.Richly researched, crisply told, and unflinchingly honest, this book uncovers the grim truth about the violent wages of slavery and sheds light on why North America had so few slave rebellions.
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Oroonoko
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 22.54 $The two plots of this tragicomedy concern a black prince sold into slavery and two white women who are husband-hunting in Surinam. Through a discussion of the status of women in the period and of attitudes towards slavery, the editors demonstrated Southerne's complex attempt to explore a parallel between the conditions of slaves and women in contemporary society. They also consider the play in terms of Southerne's high Tory politics and in its own rights as effective drama. Based on a collection of seven editions published within Southerne's life-time, this modern edition includes a section on stage history, with an account of revisions and adaptations, and a detailed comparison between the play and its source in Aphra Behn's novella of the same name.
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The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 299.94 $Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the ‘Jewish Savannah’, where a vibrant Jewish community was granted full and equal rights two hundred years before the Jews of other communities in the region. St Eustatius, where the economically successful Jewish community was plundered during the British occupation in 1781. Curacao, named the ‘Mother of Jewish communities in the New World’, where a prosperous Jewish community comprised nearly half of Curacao’s non-slave population and was the center of Jewish life in the region. For all their economic and local political power, the Jews were little more than pawns in the 200-year struggle for control of the Caribbean by Holland, Great Britain, France and Spain. Eventually growing tired of this chess game, the Jews of the Caribbean drifted into assimilation or immigrated to the United States, where life was more secure. An ideal resource and captivating read for those traveling to the region or people with an interest in Jewish history, this is an exceptional book that brings the Jewish communities of the Caribbean to life, with intensity, and with a heartbeat so strong as to secure their proper and rightful place in recorded Jewish history.
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